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Re: Is it possible to boot Syslinux com32 module from grub2 ?


From: J.Bakshi
Subject: Re: Is it possible to boot Syslinux com32 module from grub2 ?
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:18:25 +0530

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Robert Millan<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 03:00:51PM +0530, J.Bakshi wrote:
>>
>> Rather than porting, I like to boot it from grub but it is a syslinux
>> module and I don't know if it works at all. Can I use the chainloader
>> to boot syslinux and let it do the rest of the thing ?
>
> Why don't you port it to Multiboot instead?  Multiboot is very simple to
> generate, since it doesn't impose any object format (generally, ELF is
> used).
>
> Check docs/kernel.c in GRUB Legacy for an example.
>

Hello Robert,

Today I got a response from hdt developers. They mentioned that hdt
needs some syslinux internal hence it will not function without
syslinux. If multiboot approach can solve this I'll look into it
definately.

Thanks




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